January 10, 2012

Former Badger, current Texan, J.J. Watt takes some satisfaction in what was the completion of a football narrative arc, when, in the playoffs, he intercepted a pass thrown by Andy Dalton, the current Bengal, former Horned Frog.

I remember Watt as the best Badger player in 2010, and in the 2011 Rose Bowl Game. He should have been drafted higher, as is now obvious.

It is interesting that Watt remembers the Little Sisters of the Poor's red headed QB that cooly kept the Frogs ahead for that entire game.

TCU leaves the Mountain West Conference and will play in the Big Twelve next year. So the Oklahoma and Texas teams can no longer hide from TCU with its monster private school student enrollment of 6800.

"DaveW said...Has anyone seen an interception by a D-Lineman before? I can't recall ever seeing one, and Marino said on the pre-game show the next day he'd never seen it either."

Seriously? It doesn't happen a lot but it far from rare. I don't believe Dan Marino said that. The Packers BJ Raji had one against the Bears last year. Julius Peppers of the Bears has had more than few including two in his firstseason as a Bear.

Googling around a bit I see plenty of guys having caught tipped balls, but not direct INTs like that one. I think what Marino said was he'd never seen "anything like that", which perhaps puts it in a bit different context.

Anyone that watched JJ play for the Badgers could not be surprised, since he always had a hand up! It was great to hear his team mates state that he does it all the time in practice.

He's made himself an "Outlier"..read the book...I think it was blogged about here before. 10K repetitions of anything is what sets people that become phenoms or experts apart from everyone else. JJ saw that opportunity and trained himself for this moment for years.